Into The Sky (Pt1)

[pippin88]

Went on my prize flight with Thaddeus this morning. Big thanks to him. Rog also came along. Was a great experience.

Unfortunately, I was stupid and lent a mate my CPL, but in the end not that many shots had reflection and I didn't have to deal with a CPL at high speeds.

So here are the first lot:




http://images.imagineant.com/gallery/v/ ... 041web.jpg









http://images.imagineant.com/gallery/v/ ... 018web.jpg









I highly recommend having a heli flight.

[leek]

Glad you enjoyed it Nick... It is an awesome experience...

Can't wait to see your airborne shots...

I'll be flying back to Sydney in a couple of days and I'm looking forward to seeing those blue skies again... The gloomy weather here gets you down after a little while...

[Matt. K]

Hey Nick! Did he take you up in the air....or did you just sit it in and make chopper noises?

[stubbsy]

Nick

Shots #2 and #3 shown here are the best of these for me - especially #2.

I browsed these at you gallery and must say I really like the clean layout on your web site, including the EXIF data at the bottom. Is there any way you can add the lens used (I know it's in the EXIF, but I'm guessing you're using some automated script so it may not be able to extract it).

[birddog114]

Nick,
Was that what he done to you all? let you did the preflight check and left you behind
Nice blue sky & reflection.

P.S: I thought Leight came along with the flight too!

[pippin88]

Hey Nick! Did he take you up in the air....or did you just sit it in and make chopper noises?

Well, I've got to say his chopper noises were very realistic

Peter: Glad you liked the gallery, I was aiming for clean and simple. What you suggest is quite possible but I can't really be bothered. Would involve setting up photoshop actions to insert the data into the EXIF then remembering to use them on each photo. That's for actual lens, focal length is already there. (AFAIK lens name isn't recorded in EXIF?)

Birddy: Leigh wasn't present.

I took a lot of images, and have yet to go through them properly.
One thing I found was a tendancy to blow the whites, because it was a bright day but with some cloud shadows.

[stubbsy]

Nick

There's a maker field tag (ie a proprietary one) in the EXIF data that indicates the lens. I know iMatch interprets this somehow as do the various Nikon progs. But unless it's an automated thing then I'd agree it makes sense to not bother (or you could get iMatch which would automate it for you ). I asked since I noticed many of these were shot at 18mm, but that could be a number of different lenses eg 12-24, 18-70, but my betting is it was the latter.